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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Former prosperous community, in US, of escaped slaves</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p><b>Angola</b> was a prosperous community<sup id="cite_ref-Millett_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Millett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 232">: 232 </span></sup> of up to 750 <a href="/wiki/Maroons" title="Maroons">maroons</a> (escaped slaves)<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 71">: 71 </span></sup> that existed in Florida from 1812<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 72">: 72 </span></sup> until <a href="/wiki/Adams%E2%80%93On%C3%ADs_Treaty" title="Adams–Onís Treaty">Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821</a>, at which point it was destroyed. The location was along the <a href="/wiki/Manatee_River" title="Manatee River">Manatee River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bradenton,_Florida" title="Bradenton, Florida">Bradenton, Florida</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Manatee_Mineral_Springs_Park" title="Manatee Mineral Springs Park">Manatee Mineral Springs Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brad_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brad-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exact location is expansive, ranging from where the <a href="/wiki/Braden_River" title="Braden River">Braden River</a> meets the Manatee River down to <a href="/wiki/Sarasota_Bay" title="Sarasota Bay">Sarasota Bay</a>; archaeological research focuses on the Manatee Mineral Spring—a source of fresh water and later the location of the Village of Manatee two decades after the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Maroon_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Maroon community">maroon community</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs additional references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">additional citation(s) needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Archaeological evidence has been found<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the archaeology report by Uzi Baram is on file with the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Department_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Department of State">Florida Division of Historical Resources</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Department_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Department of State">Florida Department of State</a>. In 2019, the National Park Service added the excavated location at Manatee Mineral Springs Park to the Network to Freedom <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/ntf-listings.htm">[1]</a>. </p><p>At the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Spanish Land Grant applications for both Jose Maria Caldez and Joaquin Caldez, each list Angola as on the north side of the <i>Oyster River</i>, respectively eight and nine miles from Tampa Bay. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/historical_records/spanishlandgrants/">[2]</a> The location of Angola on the <i>Oyster River</i> as described by local history author Janet Snyder Matthews, was in "southern Sarasota Bay, eight miles from Tampa Bay."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup>71</sup> In the footnotes to <i>Edge of Wilderness,</i> Matthews speculated that the "Oyster River of Caldes which may have been present-day Whitaker Bayou or Hudson Bayou."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup>395</sup> </p><p>In his book on <i>The Territory of Florida</i>, John Lee Williams, described "a stream that enters the bay joining the entrance of Oyster River, on the S.W."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/323228">accompanying map</a> published in 1837 shows an area between a stream he called the "Oyster River" not to be confused with the Manatee River labeled elsewhere on the map; and another stream entering lower Sarasota Bay as "Old Spanish Fields."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angola,_Florida&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Florida" title="Spanish Florida">Spanish Florida</a> was a haven for escaped slaves and for Native Americans deprived of their traditional lands during colonial times and in the first decades of U.S. independence. The <a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a> ran south during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Underground_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Underground-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three autonomous black communities developed in Spanish Florida, though not simultaneously. <a href="/wiki/Fort_Mose_Historic_State_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Mose Historic State Park">Fort Mose</a> was the first and smallest autonomous black community but it was abandoned in 1763 after the Spanish cessation of Florida in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a>. Fort Mose was heavily influenced by neighboring <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine</a>. The second community was at <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Bluff_Historic_Sites" title="Prospect Bluff Historic Sites">Prospect Bluff</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Apalachicola_River" title="Apalachicola River">Apalachicola River</a>, but it was destroyed by forces under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> in 1816. Angola, farthest from the border of Georgia, was the last of the black settlements to survive.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> According to historian <a href="/wiki/Canter_Brown,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Canter Brown, Jr.">Canter Brown, Jr.</a>, "Most maroon settlements were tiny because people needed to escape detection. Angola's 600 to 750 people was an incredible size back then, and shows that these were capable people."<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 73">: 73 </span></sup> He described it as "one of the most significant historical sites in Florida and perhaps the U.S."<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 71">: 71 </span></sup> </p><p>None of these were settled as a group, as white colonies were; refugees gradually accumulated over many years until a community of several hundred existed. Some refugees from the <a href="/wiki/Negro_Fort" title="Negro Fort">Negro Fort</a> calamity came to Angola.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 5">: 5 </span></sup> In 1815, British officials transported around 80 black veterans of the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> to Angola.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Destruction">Destruction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angola,_Florida&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Destruction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> became Florida's <a href="/wiki/Florida_Territory" title="Florida Territory">de facto territorial governor in 1821</a>, he decided that Angola would need to be destroyed and its runaway slave populace returned to bondage.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Without the official backing of the U.S. government, Jackson decided to employ Indian allies to raid in Florida instead.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Acting in direct defiance of Secretary of War <a href="/wiki/John_C._Calhoun" title="John C. Calhoun">John C. Calhoun</a>, Jackson's first order of business was to send his <a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Creek</a> allies on a <a href="/wiki/Search_and_destroy" title="Search and destroy">search and destroy</a> mission against Angola",<sup id="cite_ref-Millett_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Millett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 250">: 250 </span></sup> which was "burned to the ground".<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 73">: 73 </span></sup> The result of the raid was "terror" all over Florida and all the blacks who could left for <a href="/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Millett_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Millett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 250–252">: 250–252 </span></sup> Those trying to reach the Bahamas would go to Cape Florida. They would be denied refuge in The Bahamas or assistance in general by British officials there. However they still established a settlement on <a href="/wiki/Andros,_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Andros, Bahamas">Andros Island</a>, named Red Bays in 1821.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A small number joined the <a href="/wiki/Red_Sticks" title="Red Sticks">Red Sticks</a> Indians and formed a community called <i>Minatti</i> at the headwaters of the <a href="/wiki/Peace_River_(Florida)" title="Peace River (Florida)">Peace River</a> near <a href="/wiki/Lake_Hancock_(Florida)" title="Lake Hancock (Florida)">Lake Hancock</a>.<sup>[Citation needed]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commemoration">Commemoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angola,_Florida&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commemoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2018, the first Back to Angola Festival was held at the Manatee Mineral Springs Park.<sup id="cite_ref-Sarasota_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarasota-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 71">: 71 </span></sup> Descendants of those who had escaped to the Bahamas attended.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angola,_Florida&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Merikins" title="Merikins">Merikins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Seminoles" title="Black Seminoles">Black Seminoles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Mose_Historic_State_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Mose Historic State Park">Fort Mose Historic State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Negro_Fort" title="Negro Fort">Negro Fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospect_Bluff_Historic_Sites" title="Prospect Bluff Historic Sites">Prospect Bluff Historic Sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seminole_Wars" title="Seminole Wars">Seminole Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Florida" title="List of ghost towns in Florida">List of ghost towns in Florida</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angola,_Florida&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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ISBN 978-0578634623.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaram2015" class="citation book cs1">Baram, Uzi (2015). "Including maroon history on the Florida Gulf Coast : archaeology and the struggle for freedom on the early 19th-century Manatee River". In Delle, James A. (ed.). <i>The limits of tyranny : archaeological perspectives on the struggle against new world slavery</i>. <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville, Tennessee</a>: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee_Press" title="University of Tennessee Press">University of Tennessee Press</a>. pp. 213–240. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781621900870" title="Special:BookSources/9781621900870"><bdi>9781621900870</bdi></a>.</cite><span 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;">Footnotes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="3" style="color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Florida_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Florida (state)"><span>Florida portal</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:United_States" title="Portal:United States"><span>United States portal</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output 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